"The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical...

This report presents the outcome from the JRC NUCLEAR FORESIGHT WORKSHOP on Shaping the Future for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards - Factors, Forces and Challenges that was conducted on 24th November 2023 at the JRC-Karlsruhe in conjunction with "60 Years of JRC Nuclear Safety and...

This report presents the outcome from the JRC NUCLEAR FORESIGHT WORKSHOP on Shaping the Future for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards - Factors, Forces and Challenges that was conducted on 24th November 2023 at the JRC-Karlsruhe in conjunction with "60 Years of JRC Nuclear Safety and...

While a second Trump Presidency would be challenging for transatlantic ties, US nuclear assurances to its NATO allies in Europe would likely be the last casualty - not the first - of a fraying relationship. There is an intrinsic incompatibility between the United States completely abandoning its...

Although 10 years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, it continues to greatly impact global energy policy and the acceptance of nuclear power. This study aims to empirically analyze the Fukushima accident's effects on five dimensions of nuclear power acceptance and the interactions...

This paper reviews the case of nuclear energy. Currently, the worldworld is facing one of the greatest energy crises due to the Russo-Ukrainian war. This conflict has lead to limited sources of gas, causing a dramatic decrease in energy supply, leading to emerging energy crisis risks. This is...

Replacing the US nuclear guarantee with a French nuclear umbrella for Europe would face major political and logistical challenges. Nevertheless, given the growing un­certainty in Europe and Asia, the German government should consider scenarios and options that go beyond today’s deterrence...

Preface. Radioactivity and Radioactive Materials. Atoms for Peace. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Overview. Safety in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities. Overview of Nuclear Reactors. Nuclear Reactor Safety. Environmental Impact of Nuclear Materials. Index.

Although plutonium has been studied by different disciplines (such as technology and innovation studies, political sciences) since its discovery, back in 1940 at the University of California (Berkeley), the resource and environmental economic literature is still relatively scarce; neither does the...

This paper aims to analyze the strategic environment of Taiwan to explore the possibility and feasibility of R.O.C. nuclear armament. I examine quantitative and qualitative indicators by reviewing relevant literature and documents and use identified trends to make plausible inferences on driver...

In the present study, some commercially available activated carbons were evaluated towards the capture methyl iodide in the context of nuclear industry. A specific methodology was implemented in order to establish structure-activity relationships between adsorbent characteristics and its...

This paper establishes the feasibility of Low-Enriched Uranium fueled Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (LEU-NTP) reactors in the low-thrust region below 16klbf (71kN). A reference, 7.5klbf, HEU design is converted to 19.75% enriched LEU and shown to be capable of reaching criticality and meeting other...

There are disturbing connections between two existential threats to our civilization, the increasing impact of global heating and biodiversity/ecosystem losses, and the threat posed by the existence of thousands of nuclear weapons, many of them on hair-trigger alert. Taken together with the...

Nuclear energy remains a promising option for the Philippines. But as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reiterated, deciding to use nuclear energy is a long-term commitment and one that should consider a time frame of 100 years from construction to decommissioning and waste...

"The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical...

Novel methodologies for classifying scientific articles related to the nuclear fuel cycle have been developed using machine learning to discover declarable activities under the additional protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this study, the relationships between articles and...

A low carbon electricity generating technology can only contribute to the net-zero energy transition if it is able to scale up. From that perspective, we compare nuclear, wind and solar power wrt. the size of a typical power plant, across the criteria of physical scalability, building experience...

The North Korean nuclear debacle has renewed academic debates over the predictive accuracy of theories of nuclear proliferation. A recent piece found most of those theories deficient for predicting that case.Are the same mechanisms explaining past choices for nuclear proliferation or nuclear...

Levels of macropolitical consensus and sectoral institutional autonomy both influence industrial policy. Different combinations of high or low consensus and autonomy help anticipate the respective explanatory relevance of generic industrial models, sectoral agencies' trajectories, and...

The purpose of the paper is to present an innovative business model, the SaHo Model, designed specifically to enable the Polish government to implement nuclear power development plans, which can be possibly used in other countries and in sectors requiring high capital expenditures. The SaHo...

With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...

The catastrophic accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, revealed unexpected safety risks of nuclear energy once again. It also accelerated the decline of nuclear energy in the international energy sector: Nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation...

Female scientists and engineers pioneered the nuclear and radiological fields, with leaders and innovators such as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Lise Meitner, among many others, establishing the foundation of modern nuclear science and technology. Women continue to make vital contributions to the...

At just 4.4 percent, the contribution made by nuclear power to meeting the world’s primary energy requirements is marginal and on the decline. The current nuclear power fleet is outdated with around 200 plants due to be phased out over the next ten years compared to as few as 46 new nuclear...

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or the Iranian Nuclear Deal was a real success of multilateral diplomacy. A transaction in the global request to stop the Iranian nuclear proliferation. The paper focuses on the United States withdraw from JCPOA and the difficulty of European Union to...

It was after several years of hectic parleys that Iran and the P5 + 1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, United States, United Kingdom plus Germany and the European Union) were finally able to reach what is popularly called the Joint...

While most of the media’s attention has been focused on Iran and North Korea and their nuclear ambitions, a full-throttle nuclear arms race is now underway in another part of the world where terrorism, ethnic violence, religious extremism, border disputes and political instability are endemic....

The paper discusses changes introduced into the regulations that come into effect in 2019 and the following years. The paper also sets forth measures necessary to adapt the nuclear industry to these changes in the environmental legislation that apply to almost all fields of legal regulation,...

After the end of the Cold War, it was attempted to create the appropriate framework for progress in armaments control and disarmament. Although there have been fundamental changes in international relations and the security environment, efforts and initiatives in the field have proved to be...